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jedishrfu replied to the thread High School Potato paradox.I was made aware of this by my doctor when we talked about whole milk vs 2% milk. Whole milk is made mostly of water, its ingredients... -
jedishrfu reacted to anuttarasammyak's post in the thread Undergrad Solving ##a^b## and ##b^a## via the Lambert Function with
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Since ##4^x + x## is monotonically increasing, I would recommend that students make a rough estimation; they would then find that ##4^x... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Generative AI Success.Deep fakes are here. AI can now animate people long since gone making us believe they said something they didn’t. My favorites are the... -
jedishrfu posted the thread Undergrad Solving ##a^b## and ##b^a## via the Lambert Function in General Math.The Lambert function comes up in a lot of math videos. Here's one such video: -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Comparing ##a^b## and ##b^a##.My high school friend in the 1960s played with this problem for a long time. I never understood what he was trying to determine. He was... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Wooly Bully.So it seems like the music producers were concerned about copyright issues. There's some other stuff in the Wikipedia article about... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Wooly Bully.and here's a tribute to Sam the Sham's song: and this article in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooly_Bully -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Undergrad Trisection: regular polygon.Interesting proof: my old teacher, not as old as Euclid, showed flaws in geometric intersections—arcs and lines often nearly intersect... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread There Be Monsters by Dave Collins.I had always heard it as "Here there be Dragons!" It kind of sounded like the classic pirate captain Long John Silver played by Robert... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread There Be Monsters by Dave Collins.One could argue that theres nothing under the Sun and yet every living thing is unique. An aside: If you were born in the year 1952... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread I've been reused but not credited.That blogger skillfully dodged a plagiarism lawsuit. -
jedishrfu replied to the thread There Be Monsters by Dave Collins.Congratulations! It’s hard work writing and writing and rewriting a book. I’m went through that for a couple years and needed to... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread A cool collection of classical mechanics problems.Thanks, @wrobel, for posting these problem sets. How do these problems compare to Goldstein, Marion, or Taylor's books? Are they... -
jedishrfu reacted to wrobel's post in the thread A cool collection of classical mechanics problems with
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mech problems I like 3D problems more, but these are also great